A/N Ooh, I got an Authors Note at the beginning now, I'm getting fancy;) Ya well, this one includes a trip through Blaire and Sirius' past. It's not great, don't get your hopes up. But the next part'll be really good, I promise! Oh ya, Rowena Alana, thank you so much for inspiration! I just finished reading your series and you rule! Oh yeah, I'm supposed to be writing here..Duh...

Chapter 4

Sirius watched Blaire through the window of her classroom. He knew that she knew he was watching her. She was too experienced not to notice. He had counted on that. Sirius smiled. So beautiful, her eyes, her hands, even her ears held a certain, Sirius searched for a word to correctly describe them, charm, he thought with raised eyebrows. From where he was sitting, uncomfortably on the windowsill, she appeared to be reading out of a book. 'Ironic', he thought to himself. She always had hated books. Sirius again focused on her hands, and he remembered the good old days, just hanging out, getting into lots of trouble. That, of course, was before everything got so complicated. Before they all grew up and faced the horrors of the real world...Sirius shuddered. 'Stop it!' he mentally shook himself. 'Your being stupid. Focus on the positive!' He closed his eyes, and his memory brought him back to the day...

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'...We shouldn't be here, you know. We're going to be in so much trouble..' whispered Peter frantically.

'Shut up, Peter. We won't get caught if you shut up.' whispered Sirius.
He glanced back at James and Blaire. 'Are you guys ready?'
The two nodded and Blaire grinned maniacally. Sirius grinned back and the group silently and slowly began to descend the staircase. The game plan was to retrieve the map that had been stolen by Filch, which Peter had so valiantly lost on his last trip to the kitchen at midnight.

'Alright Sirius, how the hell are we suppose to pull this off?' asked James with a sigh. Blaire rolled her eyes.

'C'mon James, where's your sense of adventure, don't tell me your losing your touch?' she asked with a smile playing on her lips.

'Besides, we have the advantage of being able to transform, thanks to sir howls-a-lot being 'sick'.' said Sirius optimistically. Blaire and James raised their eyebrows.

'Keep going,' said Blaire, 'and stop talking. Your making a fool of yourself.' James laughed and Peter actually smiled. Sirius rolled his eyes and kept going. They all crept along the hallway underneath James' invisibility cloak. Fitting four people in it had been a challenge but they had managed. It was almost midnight, and the four crept along the carpeted halls of Hogwarts, unseen, but not unheard.

'OWWW! My foot! James you're on my foot!' cried Sirius. Blaire gasped and whapped him on the back of the head. Or tried. She couldn't see him so she missed and hit a nearby lamp instead. It quavered but didn't fall.

'Guy's, c'mon! We're gonna get caught by Filch before we even have the chance to get the map back,' said James in a superior tone of voice.

'Well if you hadn't stepped on my foot...'

'SHUT UP!'

The quartet continued on in silence, until they reached the door of Filch's office. James gave Blaire a little push.

'Ladies first' he whispered into her ear. Blaire's eyes widened and she began to protest, but James and Sirius had already moved behind her.

'My heroes..' she said to herself sarcastically. Bravely, Blaire shuffled up to the tall oak door and grasped the handle. Before she even had a chance to turn it, the door flew open, revealing Peeves.

'Now now now, what naughty wittle person would want to get into this room all alone in the dark, hmmmm?' he said with his evil eyes delighted to cause mischief. Blaire was standing alone (or so it seemed) in the middle of the hallway, and was just about to make a run for it when she thought of something.

'Peeves, what were you doing in Filch's closet?' she asked slyly.

'I's can do whatever I's wants, so now I's wants to go rat on the ickle students!' he said with glee.

'Oh I should have known that you weren't causing mischief,' she said with false disappointment. Peeves eyed her suspiciously.

'I can cause mischief anywhere at anytime, better than you could ever do.'

'Ha! I doubt that. I bet you couldn't steal anything from Filches room.' Blaire said with a smirk.

'NOT TRUE!' exclaimed Peeves, and with that he flew back into the room to find something to steal. Blaire whispered 'run' and off she was, only to run straight into Filche's stomach. Unfortunately, so did Sirius, Peter and James. The three under the cloak fell into a heap on the floor.

'AH HA!' said Filch with a look of glee, and pulled the invisibility cloak. 'Run the other way!' shouted Sirius, and they did. With Filch screaming behind them, Peeves laughing in front of them and all of them in the middle, they flew through the hallway as fast as they could. They finally reached the end.

'Split up!' yelled James. He and Peter ran to the right and Sirius and Blaire ran to the left. Blaire stumbled, but regained her posture quickly, as Sirius grabbed her wrist and pulled her around another corner and through a door. Slamming the door behind them, Sirius and Blaire sat huffing and puffing in the dark for a few minutes. Eventually, they heard Filch pass, cursing under his breath. Blaire smiled. That meant they hadn't found James and Peter yet. When they had both finally caught their breath, their eyes had adjusted to the dim lighting of the room.

'Where are we?' asked Sirius. Looking around, he saw that they were in a large classroom, with dusty desks, chairs, well everything.

'Jeez, Sherlock what does it look like..'

'Well, _I_ don't know, a classroom maybe..'

'OF COURSE IT'S A CLASSROOM!' shouted Blaire. Sirius raised an eyebrow

'Whoa, calm down Blaire...'

'Sorry, sorry, I'm calm. Really.'

'So what are we suppose to do now?' asked Sirius, still gazing around the empty room.

'Maybe...wait here? Duh..'

'Hey, shut up!' Sirius hated it when she teased him. And she knew it, so it increased her drive to point out his stupidity. The room went silent as Blaire grabbed a seat and dusted it off while Sirius looked at the old pictures that covered the walls. A few of them waved and Sirius smiled back at them.

'Soooo...'

'So.'

'What are we going to do about the map?' began Blaire. 'If Filch fingers us we're dead! Literally!'

'Nah, we've gotten out of worse...'

'Yeah...but if you guys hadn't left me standing there, alone!'

'What were we supposed to do? Tear off the cloak 'Hey Filch, Blaire's not alone here, me, James and Peter are here too!'' Sirius ranted.

'All right, all right. That reminds me, what happened to Peter and James?' Sirius shrugged.

'I guess they got away all right. Filch didn't seem too happy when he came by here. OHHHH man,' Sirius stretched, 'I guess we won't be getting back anytime soon...'

'Quitter. We can get outta here easily. We've accomplished much more difficult tasks than this. Up to it?' Said Blaire with the gleam she got in her eye whenever she was up to mischief.

'I'm always up to a challenge.'

'Challenge? what challenge? Sirius, are you telling me you don't think we could do it?' asked Blaire is disbelief.

'Oh no, I'm sure I could do it, no prob. Child's play. It's you that I'm worried about.' provoked Sirius. Blaire opened her mouth and narrowed her eyes and was about to say something when Sirius suddenly covered her mouth and put a hand to his lips. The sound of footsteps coming down the hall quieted their bickering for the moment and they both sat there in silence. Finally Sirius let go of her mouth.

'Eww, you didn't have to slobber all over me Blaire.' Sirius wrinkled his nose.

'Well if you hadn't reached down my throat, I wouldn't have had to slobber all over you!' hissed Blaire back.

'Should we try and get out of here?'

'Well if you don't think I can do it, then why should I bother?' said Blaire sarcastically. Sirius sighed and rolled his eyes.

'Its just lately you've been off your game. I mean, come on Blaire,' he draped his arm around her shoulders, 'that thing you pulled on Peeves? weak.'

'Alright, bring it on, it worked didn't it?'

'Barely.'

'So you think you're stealthier than me?'

'OH, PUHLEEZ. A herd of wild buffalo is stealthier than you.'

'Care to place a little wager on that?' proposed Blaire.

'Just name the terms.' said Sirius confidentially. He took his arm off her shoulders and sat back down in his chair.

All right, lets see. Last person to get back to the Gryffindor common room has to do the other person's divination homework for the next week.' Said Blaire, pacing back and forth along the length of the class.

'No, not the common room, Filch is probably in there.' Blaire stopped and thought a moment.

'Alright, then the first person to get to my room using the East Southeast passage.' said Blaire, thinking quickly and impressing even herself by remembering the seldom-used passage.

'Deal. But what about Lily, Margaret and Sylvia? won't they kinda notice if we show up suddenly out of the wall?'

'Yeah probably but I know waaay too much to hold against them for them to tell anyone...' she said slyly. This intrigued Sirius. He knew the kind of stuff girls talked about. Blaire had let him in on most of the girl talk around her dorm.

'What can you hold against them? Anything concerning a certain person whose last name begins with a P and end with an R and just so happens to like Lily? Huh? Huh?'

'Nooo, but there is something about a person who's last name begins with a B and ends with a K...she said mysteriously. Sirius scoffed.

'You don't know anything, your bluffing' said Sirius indefinitely.

'Yeah, that's it.' she said and rolled her eyes.

'Alright, now you _have_ to tell me'

'Later. Right now, I believe we have a little bet to take care of.' said Blaire, moving towards the door.

'Ok, ready?' said Sirius with a grin, and joined her. She slowly opened the door and cautiously poked her head out.

'All clear. Set?' she grinned back at him.

'Go!' said Sirius and he was off. Sirius headed to the left, and ran along the transfiguration corridor for a while. He was sure Blaire was following him, but when he glanced back, she was gone. He silently snickered. Amateur, didn't she know the EASTERN hallway was the fastest route to the east-southeast passage. He glanced back again and continued on. Passing through a secret door here, a hidden hallway there. He was sure he was making good time, and he began to make plans on how to gloat about his victory. Relieved that he hadn't seen Filch or Miss Norris yet and that he was only a few turns away from the passage, he slowed his pace a bit. Big mistake.

'Hey...' he said in protest as he saw a streak of dark brown and red fly past him. It was Blaire. Laughing as she passed him, she continued on at top speed, running up ahead until she reached the passage door. She grinned as she saw Sirius, open mouthed and struggling to catch up behind her, and slammed the door behind her.

'Blaire!! Not fair!!' she could here him crying behind her but she didn't care. Full gloating rights and no divination homework for a week! what more could she ask for?

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Sirius winced from his perch above the window. Knowing her, the first thing she would say to him would be a snide comment on his stealthiness. Sirius grinned, he would go to her tonight, and hope that she would understand. 'If only Remus was here, he would know what do say' he thought in frustration. Oh well. He shrugged it off, and began his descent from the windowsill. He'd better go get some sleep, because tonight was going to be tiring, physically and emotionally.

A/N Yeah, yeah, I know. It's short and not all that great. But people, please review it anyway cause you know I love to hear from ya! ANYWAYS the next part may take a while cause..well I don't actually have a good excuse. I guess I'm just lazy. Love ya!

Disclaimer: I own nothing except the stuff that I made up. I don't have any money anyway so there's no point in suing me.